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| East/Subsaharan Africa |
| Only 6 million to die? |
| 2002-11-28 |
| The administrative Secretary of the ruling ZANU-PF party in Zimbabwe, Didymus Mutasa, has declared that the country would be better off with six million of its citizens dead. Nice round number. Wonder where he got it? Now the government is distributing food only to Shona speakers, condemning the populations who voted for the MDC to death by starvation. Funny, I don't recall the Republicans doing this in Minnesota after the election. That's what happens when life gets soft. Mutasa declared to the press during the weekend that âWe would be better off with only six million people, with our own (Shona) people who support the liberation struggle. We donât want all these extra peopleâ. By âextra peopleâ Zimbabweâs leading civil servant means the people who live in non-Shona-speaking areas, who in their majority supported the opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change. "Extra people" also is defined as being the people who wanted peace, democracy, economic development and clean government. Food aid is being distributed only to Shona speakers, those in charge of distribution being watched closely by ZANU-PF party officials. Due to the crop failures this year, those living in areas which are wholly dependent on food aid and who do not receive it, are dying. That's generally what happens to people who don't have food. I imagine that Mr. Mutasa eats well. Where are the humanitarian inspectors, where are the threats against Mugabe? There arenât any. There ought to be. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 Almost every day, there are campus demonstrations against Israeli "genocide." I wonder when the demonstrations against this *actual* genocide will begin? |
| Posted by: David Foster 2002-11-29 12:02:16 |
| #4 "Pravda" ,or "truth" in english,used to be the Soviet Communist Party's official newspaper.Now they're working to expose the evil plans of one of the last marxist dictators in the world.I think my irony-meter just exploded... |
| Posted by: El Id 2002-11-29 05:27:10 |
| #3 One man's terrorist is another man's chow hound. There are many forms of terrorism that threaten all of us and the practice of genocide by starving has to be in the top ten. |
| Posted by: Jack 2002-11-29 03:26:24 |
| #2 Mmm...planning genocide? Synthetic famines? What was that I said about the 30s before? |
| Posted by: Tripartite 2002-11-28 18:05:35 |
| #1 Funny how the article in mentioning Mugabe's predecessors in evil somehow overlooks Stalin and Mao's adventures in food... |
| Posted by: someone 2002-11-28 15:48:23 |